Moyers, Bill D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MOYMurray, Albert
Summary: "Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURMinty, Judith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MINSummary: Since its inception in 1972, Copper Canyon Press has remained dedicated to publishing poetry from a wide range of styles. The Gift of Tongues is drawn from among more than 150 books and chap-books of poetry published by the Press. Features Sam Hamill's in-depth personal introduction about Copper Canyon's path and dedication to the poetry of many cultures, as well as an annotated bibliography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIFSummary: "The Kresge Eminent Artist Award honors an exceptional artist in the visual, performing or literary arts for lifelong professional achievements and contributions to metropolitan Detroit's cultural community. Gloria House is the 2019 Kresge Eminent Artist. This monograph celebrates her life and work." -- Title page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kresge Foundation 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUSE, GLORIA LIFSummary: This comprehensive guide to modern poetry in English covers 1,500 poets, including poets from Britain, America, New Zealand, Trinidad, and Zimbabwe. Many of the contributors are themselves celebrated poets, including Tom Paulin and Seamus Heaney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 OXFVan Sise, B. A.
Summary: "With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits--running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects--highlight some of the most influential poets of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schaffner Press 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.2 VANHeaney, Seamus
Summary: From the Publisher: A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate. Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.914 HEAContents: Letter to America / Francisco Alarcon -- Lawd, dese Colored chillum / Fareedah Allah -- Powwow / Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- Song of the breed / Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- Late bus (after a series of hold-ups) / Russell Atkins -- So Mexicans are taking jobs from Americans / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- There are black / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- The old man's lazy / Peter Blue Cloud -- The lovers of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 LETFrost, Robert.
Summary: A collection of Frost's poems to be read to and by young people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 FROOliver, Mary
Summary: "Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Summary: Features the complete recorded works, many released for the first time, of "beat generation" writer and poet Jack Kerouac.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Rhino Records] 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KERCohen, Leonard
Summary: Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984's Book of Mercy—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings, which interact in exciting, unexpected ways on the page...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 COHSummary: Over 100 poems reflect the rich and varied experiences of life, from music lessons and a circus parade to a first kiss and other affairs of the heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1987